It's
happened before, and it will happen again. Secession is the
declaration of independence from whatever controlling power is
apparent. Leaving the club, going your own way, setting up your
own way of doing things rather than being ruled over by those who
haven't got your best interest at heart.

Examples
of secession include the American Declaration of Independence (4th
July 1776), and various other acts of independence by newly
forming nations. The former states of the USSR (CCCP) declared
independence and ceased to be ruled by the Soviet Communist
system. Any dissolution of an empire is regarded as a secession.

The
fact is that secession is not something purely in the historical
past, but is something that happens on an ongoing basis.

Devolution
is another term for it. Even in the UK there are movements for
the devolution of various geographic regions where there is a
feeling they are unrepresented by the controlling centralised
power.

Secession
can be peaceful, and there have been notable examples of
countries that have declared independence by reasonable agreement.
Britain in the modern era has been especially
good at allowing former colonies to go their own way. Jamaica and
Belize are
examples of this. How well they are run is another matter, but at
least they are going their own way rather than being controlled
externally.

Quite
often, though, secession requires a fight. The centralised
authority is often unhappy that people would dare to question it.
So, although the Constitution of the United
States specifically states
that "Whenever government
becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, pursuit of
happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,
and to institute a new government", the Federal
centralised authority of the throne of King George III Bush*
would probably attempt to put down any new independence movements,
probably by violent repression. Also, as with the matter of the
original American Declaration of Independence, the ruling power
would typically use bad words about the independence movement,
declaring it to be terrorist, treason, undemocratic, against the
will of God, or some such thing.

In
Sri Lanka, not
everyone thinks it's OK to be ruled over by the centralised
authority in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Colombo), and there is a
very determined group in favour of the declaration of an
independent republic of Tamil Eelam in the North. The
inflexibility of the central authority to allow the Tamils any self-determination
results in a level of militancy more severe than it would have
been if there was some reasonable room for manoeuvre.

The
Czech Republic and Slovakia are no longer all "Czechoslovakia".

Montenegro
(with its .me domains) is one of
the place that has now seceded from Yugoslavia.

Panama -
successful secession from Colombia on November 28th 1903, with
the help of the USA.

South Sudan
- declared independence from Sudan (now North Sudan) on 9th July 2011. There's already a new domain extension .ss , and as the new country can abolish Sharia Law
there could be new freedoms, which will be better for the folk as well as for international business.
For example, I wonder if Online Casinos will be
interested in setting up there as a safe haven internationally.

Quebec
- nearly declared independence from Canada in recent history.

Then
there's the matter of Tibet and Taiwan,
and the will of the people to be no longer part of China.

*
Now that the USA has had a
political change (though is it regime-change?), replacing the
previous cruel regime with a more reasonable setup, it may be
that the USA can save itself from secession and being split up.
However, this would require: 1. Closing
down the concentration camp that was set up by
the previous regime. 2. Putting an end to torture. 3. Making a
grand declaration of MORE LIBERTY and less
federal control, allowing people more freedom of choice in their
own life choices. 4. Putting the previous war criminals on trial
for their war crimes and flagrant breaches of the Geneva
Convention on Human Rights.

(Regarding
the touchy issue of the prisoner of war camp, justice may best be
seen if each of the victims set up their own individual website
and tell their own story. See How
to Set Up YOUR OWN website. The more people
tell their own story, the more difficult it is for revisionist
history priests to deny the holocaust).

When overthrowing tyranny, it's important to consider what's going to happen
After the Revolution. It's no good replacing it
with another tyranny!